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Fire Service leadership under fire for Athens wildfires as blames fly around

August 3, 2018 Greece, Politics Comments Off on Fire Service leadership under fire for Athens wildfires as blames fly around

Twelve days after the deadly wildfires in Athens and the list of errors apparently committed by Greek authorities is seemingly getting longer. Fire Service, Police and Regional Government are throwing responsibilities about the tragedy with 87 dead in East Attica on 23. July 2018 on each other. Based on fire …

IMF’s Thomsen admits Greece forecast based on insufficient data

February 15, 2017 Economy 3

For one more time, the International Monetary Fund had to admit that its methods for projections and forecast were questionable. In an effort to reject criticism coming from Greece’s European lenders, the director of the IMF European Program, Poul Thomsen, admitted that the Fund did not had all available and …

IMF admits “fear of Greek debt restructuring in 2010”

December 17, 2015 Economy 1

For one more time the International Monetary Fund acknowledged that it made mistake sin dealing and handling with the Greek crisis. In its latest report “Crisis Program Review” published on December 16th 2015, the IMF notes with regards to “Restructuring fo the Greek debt” that: “It should have been restructured …

Interior Minister asks investigation about wrong exit polls

May 20, 2014 Politics 1

It was short after 7 p.m. last Sunday, when the exit polls stunned all Greeks, left-wing SYRIZA included. In Attica region, SYRIZA candidate Rena Dourou was 7 units ahead of acting prefect and PASOK candidate Yiannis Sgouros. And thus although there was no such sign in any public opinion poll …

IMF review admits: Greeks, we screwed you with wrong program & false multipliers

June 6, 2013 Economy 8

The IMF’s review on its Greek program was released late last night. The 51-pages document on Greece’s fiscal adjustment program 2010-2013 is more than clear: The IMF screwed Greeks for three consecutive years. The IMF failed to realize the damage austerity would do. The IMF failed to predict the real …

Reichenbach: IMF admits austerity program mistake? No idea, no program revision…

February 6, 2013 Economy 1

What if the IMF officially admitted wrong multipliers and false calculations applied for the Greek austerity program. Horst Reichenabch, head of the EU Task Force rejects any discussion on a possible program modification. “At a time when Greece has managed to overcome the difficult phase of this program, I don’t …

“We made Mistakes” IMF’s Thomsen Briefs Foreign Media about Greece

October 14, 2012 Economy 7

Representative of International Monetary Fund Poul Thomsen, one of the so-called Troikans, admitted that there were mistakes in the bailout agreement between Greece and its lenders. According to Sunday newspaper TO VIMA, shortly before the Eurogroup meeting on October 8th and the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Athens …

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